The Flight of Icarus: European Legal Responses Resulting from the Financial Crisis

Drossos, Yiannis

ISBN 10: 1509944648 / ISBN 13: 9781509944644

Published by Hart Publishing, 2022

Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Mar2716030280850

Synopsis:

This book provides a detailed analysis of the institutional transformations brought about by the financial crisis, focusing on the institution-building course of Europe and the Constitution-bending course in several Member States.

It discusses the seemingly contradictory interplay between national and European institutions and the law resulting from the crisis, arguing that the anti-crisis exceptionality constitutes the matrix of the new normality of the reformed European economic governance.

The author carries out a critical analysis of the new economic governance and its case-law with regular reference to relevant political episodes, key economic figures and to the hitherto lax modes and rules. The author also offers deep insights into the Greek adjustment programme and the crisis-related Greek and Portuguese constitutional case-law, presented in comparison with the German and French case-law.

The book concludes with a critical overview of the profound mutations in the role of national Constitutions, instigated by the new European economic governance, and the emergence of a democratically deficient meta-constitutional mode of functioning of both the European institutions and national Constitutions.

About the Author: Yiannis Drossos is Professor of Constitutional Law at Athens Law School.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Flight of Icarus: European Legal ...
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New